In other words...; Art of digressing

Quote for September 19th

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
— Carl Sagan

They say love is blind. Same with hate, happiness, sorrow... when we feel something strongly we can't see the whole image. We only see those things which prove our point of view, not those which may shatter it. (How many of you can say that they never have been in a relationship in which they've sensed the doom long before the end actually came, but which we didn't want to see and admit out of love, or fear?) Because we are fooled by our emotions, because we hate to lose, be it our faith or our credibility. Don't we all want to save our face?
I think being 'fooled' by your emotions comes with being a human, and I'm sure it has its meaning as otherwise evolution would probably have destroyed that quality from us.
Think of sense of self-protection. If you're in danger only thing in your mind is to save your own a*s, no matter the cost. Fear of dying drives us to save ourselves, even in the end you may have no possibility to survive, but your fear of death or love for life keeps you fighting - even it'd be fight already lost.

Humans do odd things for love, or greed, or for any other reason. Mostly they just try to give reasonable excuses to their deeds. But mostly... we are just mammals, our instincts/emotions drive us, not our sense.
There's nothing wrong in acting by your emotions and/or urges, but at least we could admit doing so.